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1. nixCraft 🐧 (nixcraft@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 04:42:32 JST nixCraft 🐧

   Billions of devices sync with NTP servers daily, checking for and correcting time discrepancies both during boot-up and in the background. NTP is an essential for modern applications and all connected devices

   • koman :mastodon: (koman@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 04:47:57 JST koman :mastodon:

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     @nixCraft Try to use a 2FA with incorrect timestamp...

   • The Spiral Cow (thespiralcow@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 19-Jul-2024 04:52:30 JST The Spiral Cow

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     @nixCraft You do realize devices and computers have batteries to save the current time and that a drift of a second or so is not going to impact any of that... right? You act like without NTP, time is going to skew horribly on every single device randomly and unpredictably by hours or days.